Ok, I'm not sure what is ẽxpected of me here. Just a note, I was never a professor at MIT, just a graduate student. Then I did research for 30+ years in _Physical_ Chemistry. Now a part-time professor at community college, teaching HTML.

I'd be happy to help you all with English. That's how I got my start with (I'm guessing here) "admin", whom I learned to call "admin". He made me help him with translation problems.

It's a bit of a challenge writing on this board. The editor keeps wanting to add special characters to my writing, all those special diacritical marks you all use in Vietnamese.

Yes, @chauongco, you can call me docpiper, or, just Larry, which is my name. I chose DocPiper as a "handle" for my students at Bunker Hill Community College because it felt less formal and more avuncular. No one actually calls me Dr. Piper.

I think the quickest way to learn English is to practice a lot. That's not very fast, but it works in the long run. Basically, I learned to write by writing letters to my mother every week. I scheduled them to be written each Sunday and she began to expect to see them show up in her mailbox every Thursday. Her expectations provided me extra motivation to keep writing. After a few years, I became pretty fluent. She is now 101-years old, but still expects to see my letter show up each week. She complains to my sister when it doesn't.

So, if you just write a little summary of your day, each and every day, you'll get there. If you would like, I could suggest some changes in grammar and word choice that will help you.

You will notice that I use a lot of colloquialisms, which might not make sense to you. Ask and I'll explain.

An example of a colloquialism is my use of "you all" when I'm using 'you' in the plural sense. Normally, the word 'you' is both singular and plural, but people who grew up in the South use "you all" for the plural. I grew up in Maryland, which borders on the South.

I suppose my use above of the word "handle" is also colloquial. I think it was first used in amateur radio and then CB radio. It means the name one chooses to use. For example, my Vietnamese friend who got me here used the handle (or name) "admin" on the forum where I met him.

Hi nhantong. It looks like you are a football (or soccer as we call it) fan. Sad to say, I've not watched much World Cup this year. I watched quite a bit in 2002, when it was in Japan. I was visiting my son over there. He was living in Kochi at the time. Now he lives in San Francisco, which feels almost as far away from Boston as Japan.